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    David Rose

    David Rose

    6x entrepreneur, faculty at MIT, award-winning product designer, author of Enchanted Objects, interested in AR, CV, and building products with incredible teams.

    Angel Boston Harvard University '91
    enchantedobjects.com
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    Experience
    Ambient Devices
    Ambient Devices
    Founder
    Vitality
    Vitality
    Founder
    Ditto
    Ditto
    Founder
    MIT Media Lab
    MIT Media Lab
    Employee
    Continuum Innovation
    Continuum Innovation
    Futurist
    Futurist
    IDEO
    IDEO
    Employee
    HealthEngage
    HealthEngage
    Advisor
    Gecko Health Innovations
    Exit
    Gecko Health Innovations
    Advisor
    Headspace
    Headspace
    Advisor
    :PROSE
    :PROSE
    Advisor
    Pilleve
    Pilleve
    Advisor
    Warby Parker
    Warby Parker
    VP, Vision Tech 2017 - Present (over 9 years)
    Launched a new business of online eye tests. Called Prescription Check, it's an easy way to update your glasses Rx from home using standard eye tests presented on your computer.... more We use computer vision to guide you precisely into place. A board certified ophthalmologist reviews your results and issues the new prescription. Also create a killer feature with the iPhoneX to map the contours of your face and recommend glasses.
    Founder
    Ambient Devices, Ditto, Vitality
    Employee
    MIT Media Lab, Warby Parker, IDEO, Continuum Innovation
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Headspace, HealthEngage, Gecko Health Innovations, :PROSE, Pilleve
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Projects
    Ambient Furniture Project / Enchanted Objects
    How can digital tech augment life in subtle ways?
    The Ambient Furniture project lead by MIT Media Lab's Tangible Mediagroup Hiroshi Ishii, David Rose, and Shaun Salzberg consists of 6 prototype furniture… · More concepts that mix "apps with the IKEA catalog" to explore ideas on peripheral awareness, incidental gestures, pre-attentive processing, and eavesdropping interfaces when embedded into our everday objects.
    Paul Franzosa
    With Paul Franzosa
    ClearWater AR
    The first augmented reality experience for boating
    Founder, Product Lead, Unity3D · Built for the device in your pocket, the app gives you a 360º view of the terrain around you, visible up to 300 yards.… · More ClearWater lets you mark your favourite fishing spots and find new ones. They'll be waiting for you when you come back.
    George White
    With George White
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    David Rose is an MIT faculty member, digital product innovator, six-time entrepreneur and expert on ambient and spatial computing. David wrote the book on the Internet of Things, owns the seminal patent on photo-sharing, built an AI company focused on computer vision, and was VP of Vision Technology at Warby Parker. David is known for translating complex technologies into delightfully intuitive new products and consulting to businesses on digital disruption.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Product Development Disruptive Innovation Product Design
    Locations
    Massachusetts
     
    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    What Technology Wants, by Kevin Kelly

    What's your favorite non-business book?

    A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander

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